Anagrams of: EGLOOPRU_

• (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes

• A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.

• Flattery.

• (False) appearance.

• A specious show, a deceit.

• To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.

• To use flattering language.

• To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.

• To give a shine to (something or someone).

• President.

• A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface

• bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

• common black European thrush

• of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)

• a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

• a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

• the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured

• the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing

• indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration

• having no measurable or otherwise determinable value

• indicating an initial point or origin

• adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

• adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun)